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| Spot in the universe, absolute latitude-longitude |
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| human and physical characteristic of a location |
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| Human/Environment Interaction |
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| how humans adapt, change or depend on their environment |
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| mobility of goods, people and ideas |
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| area with common or similar characteristics |
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Parts of a map
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- Title
- compass rose or directional indicator
- key or legend
- scale
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| 3 factors that influence climate |
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- elevation
- latitude
- location in relation to bodies of water and landforms
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| what happens when moist air is pushed up against a mountain, the rising air cools and forms clouds and pecipitation |
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| receives most rain, has the most vegetation |
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| air moves down getting drier and warmer |
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| is found on the drier side and deserts are often found there |
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| when the earths atmosphere traps heat energy |
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| dry air masses origination over landmasses |
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| develop over large water bodies and are normallly moist |
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| originate at low latitudes acquiring relatively high temperature |
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tropics-always hot
Temperate-wide range of temp
Polar-cold |
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alters chemical makeup
- formes caves
- builds rock formation
- forests
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| Rock is broken down or weakened physically |
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tombstones
statues
land formations |
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- warm
- lots of rainfall
- near equator
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- leaves fall seasonally
- wide temp range
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- colder climates
- needle leaves
- higher elevations
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- AKA savannas
- 2 seasons
- dry wet season
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| Russian for treeless plain |
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| forms indentation in shoreline, bordered by headlands or caves |
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| alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river |
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| body of water surrounded by land |
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| narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water |
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| narrow strip of land bordered on two sides by water connects two larger land masses |
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| streams or other channels that carry water to a river |
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| formation consisting of a extension of land form a larger body surrounded by water on 3 sides |
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| large area of land with relatively low relief |
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| area of land surrounded by higher areas of land |
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| landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area |
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| landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands |
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| derived form teh environment and are renewable or nonrenewable |
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| money and machines used to produce goods and services |
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| people whose labor and skill carry out production |
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| materials that people take from the natural evnironment to survive and to satisfy their needs |
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| environment continues to replace them |
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| area where a spring of bubbles to the surface |
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| Desalinization of seawater proviedes water, but is expensive? Where is this?? |
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| Most natural gas is found in |
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| Top 3 countries that produce the most coal |
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- group of countries
- improve there profits
- not get bossed around about oil by western oil companies
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| energy that come from the earth internal heat |
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| energy produced by the sun |
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| energy produced by fission |
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| produced from any arbon source |
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| production are controlled by private individuals or corporations |
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| government owns teh means of production |
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| government controls the production of most goods |
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Primary
- extraction (fishing, minning)
Secondary
- manufacturing, industrial
Tertiary
- service, trans, gove, advertising, banking
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Para, Brazil
45 million tons |
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Types of Agriculture:
hunters, gatherers |
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| remote group move from place to place |
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Types of Agriculture:
Subsistence |
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Types of Agriculture:
Commercial |
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| raise crop/livestock to sell |
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